Anyone try DirectX 8 yet?

[Ijon_Tichy]

Well?
Any problems, benefits, opinions?

You can d/l it (a beta I assume) here:

http://zoiah.m3dzone.com/files/directx/146/DX80eng.exe

[Ijon_Tichy]

that is the Win 9x/ME version BTW.

[Electric Amish]

There's probably not much to tell since there isn't any software out there that actually uses it... afaik..

amish

[Greebe]

That and the graphics card drivers must be written to take advantage of it. I know 1 very important person around here where DX8 thrashed their system.

[Gurm]

Well, the latest beta seems a teensy bit slower than the last one (146).

NO, no games use DX8 yet. HOWEVER...

If you have Win2k, DX8 fixes a major bug in Win2k which slows down games considerably. You can get as much as a 25% performance boost in D3D just for installing DX8.

In addition, under Win2k, DX8 makes the SB Live! work... so if you have Liveware! 3 for Win2k and install DX8, the Live! will be hardware accelerated (finally).

Last but not least, it just makes all games in Win2k run a bit better.

Under Win9x/ME it is next to useless.

- Gurm

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[hominid skull]

I'm using it under win2k and i can back up what Gurm says, games D3d games are alot smoother. Apart from that i don't notice anything.

I ghosted my win2k partition before i installed it, just incase..

[Electric Amish]

What about Aureal card support? Does this affect the supposedly poor performance of Aureal cards in Win2K??

amish

[Gurm]

I'm not sure about the Aureal drivers. I wouldn't count on it, although there are supposedly new beta drivers that are only a month old that Vortex of Sound (at http://www.vortexofsound.com of course) is attempting to get permission to post.

- Gurm

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[chicane]

Yeap...

I running DX8 RC0 now.

Matrox G400 driver is PD5.55. Kinda dated, i guessed. But its the only revision before PD6.xx that can works wif the Matrox Overclocker.

I hv been running DX8 since release 140. So far i hv not encountered major driver issue. Speed wise i hv not bench it. Seemed Ok.

Like U lots out there, i just curious how the DX8 deck out. Knowing that no software or game uses DX8. Benefit wise is v minimal.

Even my Diamond Monster Sound 3D M80 seemed to B pretty happy running DX8.

[Greebe]

The Matrox OCer only works through PD5.x If you want to OC and use PD6.x use MGA Tweak available on the MURC.